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CONSTRUCTIONSPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTIONSPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICATIONS
The set of, Specifications shall govern the methods of materials to be used for the proposed building shown in
the plans and details drawings and plans, detail drawings.
The plans, detail drawings and these Specifications shall be considered as complementing each other so that
what is mentioned or shown is one, although not mentioned or shown in the other, shall be considered as appearing on
both in case of conflict between the two, the same should be referred to the designing Architect/Engineer for resolution.
GENERAL CONDITIONS:
All parts of the construction shall be finished with first class workmanship to the fullest talent and meaning of
the plans and these Specifications, and to the entire satisfaction of the Architect/Engineer and the Owner.
The construction shall conform to all the requirement of the National Building Code, as well as the local rules
and regulations of the Municipality of Baliuag, Bulacan.
EXCAVATION:
All excavation shall be made to grade indicated in the drawings. Where the building site is covered with any
kind of fill, the excavation for footings should be made deeper until the stratum for safe bearing capacity of the soil is
reached.
Whenever water is encountered in the excavation process, it shall be removed by the bailing or pumping, care
being taken that be surrounding soil particles are not disturbed or removed.
BACKFILLS:
After concrete for foundations is hard enough to withstand pressure resulting from fills, the materials removed
from excavation shall be used for backfill around them.
Backfills and fills shall be placed in layers not exceeding 150 mm in thickness, and each layers shall be
thoroughly compacted by wetting, tamping and rolling.
CONCRETE WORKS:
All concrete shall be mixed thoroughly until there is a uniform distribution of the cement and aggregates, and
should be deposited as nearly as practicable in its final position, care being taken to avoid segregation of the aggregates
Water to be used for mixing concrete shall be clean and free from injurious amount of oil, acids, alkalis, salts
and other organic materials.
PROPORTIONING OF CONCRETE:
All concrete works shall be done in accordance with the standard specifications for plain and reinforced
concrete as adopted by the Government Cement to be used shall be Republic cement. Alternative cements so selected
must meet the requirements set and approved by Architect or Engineer in charge of construction.
Unless otherwise indicated in plans or noted in the specifications the minimum 28 days cylinder compressive
strength of concrete shall be as follows:
1. Foundations, pedestal, columns, wall footings
beams, girders, suspended slabs, shear wall
stairs 20.7 Mpa (3000 psi)
2. Slab on fill, side walk curbs and gutter 17.0 Mpa (2500 psi)
The following proportions of concrete mixtures shall be used for the various parts of the building:
Columns and footings -Class A(1 : 2 : 4)
Conc. hollow. block footings -Class B(1 : 2 ½ : 5)
Reinf.Conc. Beams and slabs -Class A(1 : 2 : 4)
Concrete slab floor on fill -Class C(1 : 3 : 6)
Septic Vault Cover -Class A(1: 2: 4)
Class A Concrete shall be a mixture of 1 part cement, 2 parts fines aggregate and 4 parts coarse aggregate by
volume, plus enough clean water to make the mixture into a pliable paste.
Class B concrete shall be a mixture of 1 part cement, 2 ½ parts fine aggregate and 5 parts coarse aggregate by
volume, plus enough water to make the mixture into a pliable paste.
Class C concrete shall be a mixture of 1 part cement, 3 parts fine aggregate and 6 parts coarse aggregate by
volume, plus enough water to make the mixture into a pliable paste.
The fine aggregate shall consist of natural sand, or of insert materials with similar characteristics, having clean,
hard and durable grains, free from organic matter or loans.
The coarse aggregate for concrete shall consist of crushed rock of durable and strong qualities, or clean or hard
gravel. Size of the coarse aggregate to be used shall very from 20mm to 40mm (3/4 “ to 1 ½ “).
All forms of concrete works shall be properly braced or tied together as to maintain the correct position and
shapes of the concrete members. Forms shall be constructed sufficiently tight to prevent bulging and seepage of water.
Concrete shall be deposited in its final position without segregation re-handling or flowing. Placing shall be
done preferably with buggies, buckets or wheel barrows no chutes will be allowed except to transfer concrete from
hoppers to buggies, wheel barrows or buckets in which case they should not exceed six thousand (6000 mm) in
aggregate length.
No depositing of concrete shall be allowed without the use of vibrators unless authorized in writing by the
designers and only for unusual conditions where vibration is extremely difficult to accomplish.
Forms shall not be removed until the concrete has attained sufficient strength to support its own weight and any
loads that may be placed on it. Side forms of beams and girders may be removed earlier than the bottom forms but
additional posts or shoring must be place under the beams or girders until they have attained their strength.
Columns - 2 days
Walls - 2 days
Sides of Beams and Girders - 2 days
Floor Slabs - 14 days
Shoring for Beams and Girders - 14 days
Beams and Girders - 14 days
Reshore: Reshore immediately after stripping slabs, beams and girders that support subsequent formwork.
Retain reshores for as many levels as required to combine the liveload capacities of cured floors to support the loads of
the subsequent fresh construction and construction loads. Reshore a minimum of two consecutive levels.
FRAMES
All wood frames for windows, doors, cabinets, and closet shall be done as much as possible, with carefully
fitted mortise and tenon joints. All door and window frames to be installed on concrete hollow block and other masonry
walls shall be anchored with 76mm ( 3”) common wire nails all around the contact surfaces, and all such contact
surfaces shall first be painted with SOLIGNUM brand wood preservative before the frames are installed in place.
All unexposed lumber such as trusses or rafters, purlins, cleats, ceiling joists, wall studs, etc. shall likewise be
treated with SOLIGNUM preservative after they have been installed in place.
ROOFING
The roof shall be covered with pre-painted gauge 26 G.I. sheets. The roofing sheets shall be secured to the
purlins with 6mm (¼) GI rivets and Gauge No. 26 plain GI straps cut long enough for bending around the specified size
or purlins. The straps shall be at least 25mm wide with corners chipped off at the riveting ends.
Ridge rolls, hip rolls and valleys to be used shall lap the roofing sheets at least 250mm. The ridge rolls, hip rolls
and valleys shall be riveted to the roofing sheets, in addition to the rivets engaging the GI straps in securing the roofing
sheets to the purlins.
All roofing sheets adjacent to concrete hollow block and other masonry walls such as at property line firewalls,
shall be provided with Gauge No. 26 plain GI flashing to extend up to the top and over to the other side of the wall. All
rivets shall be placed at the top of the corrugations of the roofing sheets to prevent water from standing around the
rivets.
PLUMBING WORKS
Piping Installations
General: Piping Shall be installed as shown on the drawings, as recommended by the manufacturer and as
directed during installation, straight and direct as possible, forming right angles or parallel lines with building walls and
other pipes, and neatly spaced. Erect pipe risers plumb and true, parallel with walls and other pipes neatly spaced.
All piping shall be properly supported or suspended on stands, clamps, hangers or equivalent to
approved design. Supports shall be installed in such a manner to permit pipe free expansion and
contractions while minimizing vibrations.
Do not install pipes in a manner which interferes with other pipes, ducts, conduits, equipment and
adjacent structures of the building.
The arrangement, and positions and connections of pipes, fixtures, drains, valves, and the like, indicated
in the drawings shall be followed as closely as possible. The right is reserved by the Project Manager to
change locations and elevations to accommodate conditions which may arise during the progress of the
work, prior to the installation, without additional compensation for such changes.
The responsibility for accurately laying out the work and coordination of installation with other
contracts rests with this contractor. Any field lay out interferences that occur shall be reported
immediately to the project manager.
All pipes shall be cut accurately to measurements and shall be worked into place without springing or
forcing. Changes in pipe sizes shall be made with reducing fittings.
Roughing-in for pipes and fixtures shall be carried along with the building construction. Correctly
located openings of proper sizes shall be provided where required in the walls and floors for the passage
of pipes. All items to be embedded in concrete, shall be thoroughly and free from all rust, scale and
paint.
Pipe shall not pass through the columns, footings, beam of ribs, except noted on the drawings.
ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATIONS
ELECTRICAL WORKS
The electrical installation shall be done in accordance with the approved plansa nd under the direct supervision
and control of a licensed Professional Electrical Engineer or Master Electrician.
All electrical works and materials shall conform to the provisions of the latest edition of the Philippine or
National Electric Code.
The electrical wiring shall be installed thru MOLDFLEX coilable PVC electrical conduit, fittings and
appurtenances that conform to ISO dimensions.
The type of electrical services to be supplied to the building shall be 220 V, AC, and single phase.
There shall only be one service drop from the nearest Manila Electric Company (MERALCO) pole to the
proposed building. Electric wires for light and power shall not be smaller than 13.5 sq mm. (No. 12), 600 V insulation.
Electrical materials to be used for the electric wire installation shall be as follows:
Automatic Circuit Breaker --------------------------------------------------- EVER brand
Flush wall switches, convenience outlet other wiring devices-------- NATIONAL brand
Wires/Conductors--------------------------------------------------------------PHELPS DODGE
The spare circuit shall be provided with an empty PVC pipe, size 19mm, which should extend at least 300mm
above the ceiling line. The grounding wires shall be identified and all wires shall be color-coded for easy identification.
The panel board shall be provided with a circuit directory.
The work shall include the furnishing and installing of the following each complete and in proper operating condition
unless otherwise stated in these specifications:
Installing service feeders complete with conduits, conductors, and other accessories from the point indicated in
the plans and as approved by the Local Electric Power Co.
Furnishing and installing of Main Safety Switch, safety switches for other feeders, and enclosed porcelain
cartridge fuse cutouts with 15-ampere fuses.
Furnishing and installing all necessary pull boxes, junction boxes, wire gutters, utility boxes and other type of
box as required and/or as indicated in the drawings.
Furnishing and installing all the necessary feeder and branch circuit with all the necessary conductors, conduits
fittings and other items indicated in the drawings.
Furnishing and installing all the necessary wiring devices, such as utilization outlets, wall switches, receptacles
all complete with their proper Bakelite cover plates.
Furnishing and installing of all lightning fixtures.
Furnishing and installing the time system consisting the time system of a mast clock, bundy clock, time bell,
and slave clocks indicated in the drawing.
Wiring Method: All wiring running underground, and through concrete ceiling or concrete and hollow block
partitions shall be schedule 4 PVC Conduits.
Wiring installations through wooden double wall partitions, shall be PVC pipes or flexible metal or Flexible
PVC Conduits.
In all cases the wiring installations shall be concealed from view.
PVC Conduits shall not be less than 15mm nominal diameter and where so indicated, sizes shown shall be
minimum.
All PVC installation work shall be done during proper stage of construction. Installation shall be concealed by
embedding in concrete with all parts installed in proper places at such stages in the progress of construction so as to
permit cabinets, outlet boxes and device boxes to be flush mounted. All conduit-installed underground shall encased in
concrete, which shall have a minimum thickness of 80mm around the conduit.
All splices, taps, and junctions except those feeder and service conductors shall be soldered or provided with
spring lock type connectors, with rubber tape and protected with friction tape.
For the service and feeder conductors, taps shall be made with heavy-duty, all brass or copper solder less
connectors. Solder type lugs or solder less taps shall not be permitted. After solder less connectors are tightened for
maximum mechanical and electrical rubber and friction tapes for insure an insulation strength equal to at least that of
the insulation of the conductors they join.
Feeders: Feeders shall be laid out in accordance with the diagrams shown in the drawings.
Unless otherwise specified in the Specifications or shown in the drawings. Type TW wires shall be used. The
wires and conduits shown on the drawings shall be in the minimum sizes to be used. Wires shall be Phelps Dodge or
American wire or approved equal.
Feeders shall be continuous and without splices from the main distribution center up to the various load centers.
Outlet and Switches Boxes: All boxes shall be galvanized approved products of reputable manufacturers.
Enamel coating shall not be used in lieu of zinc coating.
All ceiling outlet boxes intended for lightning outlets shall be gauge 16 of the 101mm octagonal box or larger
when required with a depth 50mm minimum.
Convenience and wall switch outlet shall be gauge # 16 of the 100mm x 100mm rectangular, deep, flash type,
except in case where 100 amp., or 20 amp., switches shall be counted in gangs of two or three, therefore the proper
sizes of boxes and cover plates shall be used.
All boxes, including junction and pull boxes shall be of sufficient sizes to provide free space for all conductors
enclosed in the box, in addition to the fittings, such as switch mechanism and receptacles that may be contained in the
box.
All junction boxes, pull boxes shall be fitted with standard flat metal box cover.
Care should be taken to mount all boxes level and true.
Wall Switches and Receptacles: Suitable single-pole and three-way switches of the flush tumbler type with
appropriate bakelite cover plates shall be furnished and installed as indicated in the drawings.
Wall switches intended to control more than eleven or more 40-watt fluorescent lamp using high power factor
ballasts shall be rated no less than 50 amps. , 250 volts.
All duplex receptacles shall be rated no less than 10 amps. , 250 volts A.C. and shall be for flush mounting.
Interchangeable type receptacles shall not be accepted.
Lighting Outlets and Fixtures: Lighting outlets unless otherwise specified shall be furnished and installed by
the contractor. Octagon boxes gauge #16 of the 100mm deep type shall be installed for ceiling lights.
Lighting fixtures shall be furnished and installed as indicated in the drawings by the contractor.
Lighting fixture shall be industrial using two 40w or single 40 watts as indicated in the drawings. Ballast shall
be high power factor pre-heat type. Casing shall be gauge 22 with one coated primer, and a final coat of white baked
enamel on both inside and outside surfaces.
Wiring from ceiling light outlet to fixtures shall be type TW wires in flexible metal conduits. Type ACT (BX)
cables for shall not be allowed. Proper fittings shall be provided for the said installations such as, connectors, bushings
and lock nuts.
Miscellaneous: Although the location of the panel board, safety switches, wall switches, lighting outlets,
receptacles, terminal boxes, etc., are indicated in the plans, the Architect shall be consulted for confirmation of such
location for the exact point as to where they shall be installed.
All defects arising due to the fault of contractor during the construction period shall be corrected by him at his
own expense.